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unusual facts about Donald C. MacDonald


Donald C. MacDonald

He later became editor of Canadian Digest, a magazine published by the military that provided a cross section of articles from Canadian periodicals and newspapers, and was the host of Serviceman's Forum, a regular series of broadcasts on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that were also aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation.


1900–01 MHA season

Honorary club president Hugh John Macdonald, former Manitoba premier, and son of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald made a speech.

American Customer Satisfaction Index

Both the Swedish version and the ACSI were developed by Claes Fornell, now Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, and chairman of CFI Group.

Angus L. Macdonald Bridge

It is named after the former premier of Nova Scotia, Angus L. Macdonald, who had died in 1954 and had been instrumental in having the bridge built.

Bruce E. MacDonald

After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

Bruce McDonald

Bruce E. MacDonald (born 1955), formerly a senior lawyer with the US Navy

Butler, Alabama

Donald C. Simmons, Jr., American educator, writer, poet and documentary film producer.

Confederate settlements in British Honduras

Historian and author Donald C. Simmons, Jr., published a book in 2001 entitled Confederate Settlements in British Honduras about this episode in American and British Honduran history.

Corydon Partlow Brown

One of Brown's most important tasks during his time at Public Works was to convince the serving Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, that the future of Manitoba depended on the issuing of railway charters (disallowed by Ottawa).

Daniel J. MacDonald

He returned to his unit after a few weeks and was seriously wounded on December 21, 1944 during the Battle of Senio River.

Daniel MacDonald

Daniel C. MacDonald (1882–?), politician in Prince Edward Island, Canada

David R. Macdonald

In 1976, President of the United States Gerald Ford nominated Macdonald as Under Secretary of the Navy and Macdonald held this office from September 14, 1976 to February 4, 1977.

Macdonald practiced law at Baker & McKenzie until 1974, when he left the firm upon being appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Enforcement, Operations, and Tariff Affairs).

Donald C. Backer

Backer then took post-doctoral positions first at NRAO in Charlottesville, Virginia (1971–1973), and then at NASA/GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland (1973–1975).

Donald C. Dobbins

Dobbins was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937).

Donald C. Jackman

Cousins of the German Carolingians, in: Katharine Keats-Rohan und Christian Settipani : Onomastique et parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, 2000, ISBN 1-900934-01-9.

Donald C. Jackman received the Ph.D. in 1987 from Columbia University with the dissertation entitled The Konradiner: a study in genealogical methodology dealing with the family of the Conradines.

Donald C. Peattie

His best known works are the two books (out of a planned trilogy) on North American trees, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America (1950) and A Natural History of Western Trees (1953), with woodcut illustrations by Paul Landacre.

He studied French poetry for two years at the University of Chicago and then transferred to – and graduated (1922) from — Harvard University, where he studied with the noted botanist Merritt Lyndon Fernald.

Donald C. Pogue

He served as Director of the Connecticut branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees from 1975 to 1976.

Donald C. Wurster

He commanded special operations forces at the squadron, group, wing and subunified command level, and he served as commander of all U.S. forces assigned to Joint Task Force-510 during Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines.

#June 1973 - July 1974, student, undergraduate helicopter training, Fort Rucker, Ala.

École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier

The school was named after two of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) and Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1814-1873).

Elephant Moraine

The feature was noted in U.S. satellite imagery of 1973, and in aerial photographs obtained subsequently, by William R. MacDonald of the United States Geological Survey, who originally described it to William A. Cassidy as "a possible nunatak having an outline similar to an elephant."

Eupora, Mississippi

Donald C. Simmons, Jr., American educator, author, poet and documentary film producer.

George F. MacDonald

Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre.

Gordon J. F. MacDonald

MacDonald's early skepticism regarding plate tectonics stemmed from his detailed study, with Walter Munk, of the rotation of the Earth.

Herbert S. Fairbank

In 1957 he was the first recipient of the Thomas H. MacDonald Award for outstanding contributions to highway progress.

James A. Macdonald

He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1891 and assigned to Knox Presbyterian Church in St. Thomas.

John J. Cove

Around the same time, he became influenced by the structuralist approaches of Claude Lévi-Strauss and, through the help of George F. MacDonald, began an intensive study of the Tsimshianic narratives collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.

Julie MacDonald

Julie A. MacDonald (born 1955), former U.S. Department of the Interior official

Macdonald Hall

The series is set in a Canadian boarding school for boys called Macdonald Hall (named after John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada), located near the city of Toronto along Highway 48 and seven miles south of the fictitious town of Chutney.

Malachy Bowes Daly

At Halifax, July 4, 1859, he married Joanna Kenny, second daughter of Sir Edward Kenny, a cabinet minister in the Sir John A. Macdonald government.

Mount Macdonald

The original name of the peak was Mount Carroll, but was renamed to honour the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Since July 2000 he wrote a blog Electrolite until it was incorporated into his wife's blog Making Light in May 2005, where he now writes along with her, with Viable Paradise co-teacher, SF writer James D. Macdonald, and SF fans Avram Grumer and Abi Sutherland.

Paul McDonald

Paul A. MacDonald (1912–2006), American politician and lawyer from Maine

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Shawn Doyle

In fall 2011 he starred as the future first Canadian prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald in the CBC TV movie John A.: Birth of a Country.

St. Anne's Anglican Church

The artwork by J. E. H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, and Franklin Carmichael is religious iconography, something they are not generally known for.

Stephan I, Count of Sponheim

Donald C. Jackman considers Stephan I a son of Siegfried I. Both Jackman and Josef Heinzelmann consider Stephan as being identical to Stephan, Vogt of Worms documented with his brother Markward in 1068.

Type II string theory

The mathematical treatment of type IIB string theory belongs to algebraic geometry, specifically the deformation theory of complex structures originally studied by Kunihiko Kodaira and Donald C. Spencer.

Universal pragmatics

For example, the utterance "The first Prime Minister of Canada" refers to a man who went by the name of Sir John A. Macdonald.

William Allingham

Up the Airy Mountain is the title of a short story by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald.

William Beynon

MacDonald, George F., and John J. Cove (eds.) (1987) Tsimshian Narratives. Collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.

William Happer

Happer, G. J. MacDonald, C. E. Max, and F. J. Dyson, "Atmospheric-turbulence compensation by resonant optical backscattering from the sodium layer in the upper atmosphere," J. Opt.

William Henry Beatty

Although, in his words he did not take "any active interest in politics", he was a "true blue Conservative" and when he thought it necessary, he used his political connections and his personal friendship with Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Charles Tupper to assist his clients.

William J. MacDonald

William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), American banker who endowed an astronomical observatory

William John Macdonald (1832–1916), Canadian merchant and politician


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